Alejandro Matos Cruz, MD
Neurological Surgery · Erie, PANPI 1306247523
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by grants: $36,366 of the $41,311 with a category attached, or 88.0%. Abbott accounts for 89.8% of it on its own, with 13 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $18,658 and has fallen 88.9% since, to $2,075 in 2025.
Across 74 payments — averaging $558.26 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Abbott$37K
- Medtronic$882
- Arthrex$616
- Mid-atlantic Surgical Systems, LLC$589
- Si-bone, Inc.$513
- Boston Scientific$431
- plus $1K from 8 others
What the payments were for
- Grants$36,36688%
- Travel & lodging$9242%
- Food & beverage$3,6689%
- Education$3531%
General payments by program year
Who reported the general payments
Companies are grouped under their corporate parent — a single manufacturer often files under several CMS reporting entities. Research and ownership payments are counted separately and are not in this table.
| Company | Payments | Total |
|---|---|---|
| Abbott | 12 | $37,113 |
| Medtronic | 21 | $882 |
| Arthrex | 7 | $616 |
| Mid-atlantic Surgical Systems, LLC | 4 | $589 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 5 | $513 |
| Boston Scientific | 4 | $431 |
| Stryker | 3 | $277 |
| Aesculap, Inc. | 8 | $254 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 4 | $185 |
| Globus Medical | 2 | $153 |
| Sanara Medtech Inc. | 1 | $145 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 1 | $108 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $27 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $20 |
What the payments were tied to
Products named in the reported payments. Only payments of $100 or more are attributed here — the typical reported payment nationally is a meal worth about $16, and listing those product-by-product would be noise.
- INTELLIS ADAPTIVESTIM$256
- NONE$245
- ETERNA$167
- CD HORIZON SPINAL SYSTEM$160
- CellerateRx$145
- FLOSEAL$140
- GENERAL PAIN MANAGEMENT$138
- PROCLAIM$130
- Modulus$117
- INCEPTIV$100
How this compares
$41,311 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 390 neurological surgery providers in Pennsylvania.
Medicare billing
What this is not: this is the amount Original Medicare Part B allowed for services this provider billed in 2024. It is not their income. It excludes Medicare Advantage — now more than half of all Medicare enrollment — along with Medicaid and all commercial insurance, and it is gross practice revenue before staff, rent, supplies and malpractice premiums. CMS also suppresses any figure covering ten or fewer patients, so low-volume providers appear smaller than they are.
Other neurological surgery in Erie
- Salem El-ZuwayErie$81K
- Amer SamdaniPhiladelphia$4.4M
- Steven FalowskiFountain Hill$3M
- Adam KanterPittsburgh$2.6M
- David OkonkwoPittsburgh$2.3M
- Brian JankowitzPhiladelphia$823K
- Gaurav JainWynnewood$599K
- Joshua HellerPhiladelphia$519K
- Srinivas PrasadPhiladelphia$513K
- Constantinos HadjipanayisPittsburgh$484K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.